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Trace_Construction 

You can Trace the movement of one or a group of drawing objects.  You can create string art drawings and see how an envelope curve is formed.  Here are the steps:

  1. Select ebd_Ebd173  the drawing objects to be traced.
  2. Click the Trace tool trace icon   and the Edit Trace dialog pops up.
  3. You need a parameter to drive the motion of the trace.  Click the arrow key to the right of the Parametric Variable window to select from a list of all variables in the drawing. (If you entered the needed constraint in real terms, Cancel the trace and change your constraint to a variable by double-clicking it in the drawing window.)

       Trace dialog  trace dialog2 

4.  Simply fill in the values for the appropriate variable and click the OK button.

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To adjust the range or number of traces, double-click one of the traces to edit the dialog.